The European Committee of the Regions recognizes the relevance of the European Social Economy Action Plan and highlights its contribution to local and regional development in Europe
The European Committee of the Regions has approved by majority the adoption of an opinion on the Action Plan for the Social Economy, a plan that is expected to be approved by the European Commission in the last quarter of 2021. Through this opinion, the CoR provides a series of policy recommendations focused on three points - training, dissemination and financing - for the work of this plan, which aims to promote the contribution of the Social Economy to local and regional development in Europe. In this opinion, the CoR praises the Commission's commitment to present such a plan, in line with the requests of the European Economic and Social Committee, the Intergroup on Social Economy of the European Parliament, GECES, different EU governments and committed European networks with the development of the Social Economy as Social Economy Europe.